43 Facts About Sunak

Rishi Sunak is a British politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 13 February 2020 to 5 July 2022, and Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 24 July 2019 to 13 February 2020.

Sunak subsequently read philosophy, politics and economics at Lincoln College, Oxford, and later gained an MBA from Stanford University in California as a Fulbright Scholar.

Sunak was elected to the House of Commons for Richmond in North Yorkshire at the 2015 general election, succeeding William Hague.

Sunak supported Brexit in the 2016 referendum on EU membership.

Sunak was appointed to Theresa May's second government as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Local Government in the 2018 reshuffle.

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Sunak replaced Sajid Javid as Chancellor of the Exchequer after his resignation in the February 2020 cabinet reshuffle.

Sunak resigned as chancellor on 5 July 2022, citing his economic policy differences with Johnson in his resignation letter.

Sunak in turn lost the Conservative leadership race to Truss, garnering 42.

Sunak was born on 12 May 1980 in Southampton to African Hindu parents of Indian descent, Yashvir and Usha Sunak.

Sunak's father was born and raised in the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya, while his mother was born in Tanganyika .

Sunak's grandfathers were born in Punjab province, British India and migrated from East Africa with their families to the UK in the 1960s.

Sunak's maternal grandfather Raghubir worked in Tanganyika as a tax official, and had an arranged marriage with 16-years-old Tanganyika-born Sraksha, with whom he had three children, and the family moved to UK in 1966, funded by Sraksha selling her wedding jewellery.

Sunak attended Stroud School, a preparatory school in Romsey, Hampshire, and Winchester College, a boys' independent boarding school, where he was head boy and the editor of the school paper.

Sunak was a waiter at a curry house in Southampton during his summer holidays.

Sunak read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Lincoln College, Oxford, graduating with a first in 2001.

Sunak worked as an analyst for the investment bank Goldman Sachs between 2001 and 2004.

Sunak then worked for the hedge fund management firm the Children's Investment Fund Management, becoming a partner in September 2006.

Sunak was selected as the Conservative candidate for Richmond in October 2014, defeating Wendy Morton.

Sunak supported Brexit at the June 2016 EU membership referendum.

Sunak served as parliamentary under-secretary of state for local government between January 2018 and July 2019.

Sunak supported Boris Johnson in the 2019 Conservative Party leadership election and co-wrote an article in The Times newspaper with fellow MPs Robert Jenrick and Oliver Dowden to advocate for Johnson during the campaign in June.

Sunak was appointed as chief secretary to the Treasury by Prime Minister Boris Johnson on 24 July 2019, serving under Chancellor Sajid Javid.

Sunak was considered to be a Johnson loyalist, favoured by Dominic Cummings, and seen as the "rising star" minister who had ably represented the Prime Minister during the 2019 election debates.

Sunak was promoted to chancellor on 13 February 2020 as part of a cabinet reshuffle, after the resignation of his predecessor, Javid, on the same day.

Sunak was part of a committee of Cabinet ministers that made decisions on the pandemic.

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Sunak received a fixed penalty notice alongside Johnson for attending a party, but he did not deliver a statement or resign.

Sunak was the first Chancellor to raise the corporation tax rate since Healey in 1974.

On 12 April 2022, Sunak was issued with a fixed penalty notice after the Metropolitan Police believed he had breached COVID lockdown restrictions by attending a birthday party.

In November 2020, Sunak was reported by The Guardian to have not declared a significant amount of his wife and family's financial interests on the register of ministers' interests, including a combined £1.

Sunak is required under the ministerial code to declare interests that are "relevant" to his responsibilities and "which might be thought to give rise to a conflict" with his public duties.

Sunak said that the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic had been disrupted by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Sunak provided some funding to help vulnerable people cope with the rising cost of living.

On 8 July 2022, Sunak announced that he would stand as a candidate in the Conservative party leadership election to replace Johnson.

Sunak launched his campaign in a video posted to social media, writing that he would "restore trust, rebuild the economy and reunite the country".

Conservative politicians who had supported Johnson criticised Sunak as "leading the charge in bringing down the prime minister" with key Johnson ally Jacob Rees-Mogg calling him a "high tax chancellor".

Sunak commented on the clip that "We all say silly things when we are younger".

At the start of 2020, following his appointment as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sunak arrived in public discourse from relative obscurity.

Various polls showed Sunak remained overwhelmingly popular among Conservative supporters and many other Britons throughout 2020.

Public attitudes towards Sunak remained broadly positive in 2021, though his popularity declined steadily over time.

Sunak is a Hindu, and took his oath as an MP at the House of Commons on the Bhagavad Gita.

Sunak was previously a governor of the East London Science School.

Sunak is close friends with The Spectator political editor James Forsyth, whom he has known since their school days.

Sunak was the best man at Forsyth's wedding to the journalist Allegra Stratton, and they are godparents to each other's children.